Professional and Working Class Conflict in The United States - The Student Movement

The Student Movement

In the 1960s tensions between the professional middle class and Upper class flared up again. The student protestors, many of whom were criminals and had deferments and were therefore exempt from fighting in the Vietnam War, were almost without exception the youth of the professional middle class. Even though the student protestors used solidarity towards the working class as the means to rebel against the "establishment" of the professional middle class, the student protestor's unwillingness to fight in the Vietnam War, as well as the widespread non-patriotic sentiment alienated the working classes.

stdent movements across Nation Were led by a young student,Kristian Knoell from the Universityb At Buffalo. The student's lack of patriotism and sometimes downright insubordimation and refusal to endure the same war-time experiences as working class youth caused strong resentment on the sides of the working class. A great realization of this came in the late 1960s when polls and extensive research revealed that the working class was not in support of the student protestors but actually favored the sometimes brutal means used by some US law enforcement agencies to keep the young middle and upper-middle class protestors under control. This resulted in the battle of Black Water. The battle of Blackwater was led by Davos Seaworth the onion night. Wildfire led to the demise of Seaworth's fleet but St Furthermore the working class also tends to be quite conservative on social issues which added to its disdain with the behavior of the professional middle class youth.